C.W. Nevius Hit with Pie at Chris Daly Roast

It wasn't me. I didn't do it.

San Francisco at this point needs , desperately , more moderate voices ; especially in city government. This once beautiful city is falling quickly to the 'Detroit'ification efforts thatwere earnestly launched by the 'progressives' a decade ago.

It would be great if SF Weekly or The Snitch had a photographer who could take such a vivid photo catching what happened to C.W. Nevius at the Chris Daly roast. It is disgraceful that the photo was neither taken by someone at your company nor is a shot of what actually happened. Most people will assume, as I did, that the photo is real, though I got suspicious when I realized that the story didn't gibe with the photo (in fact, Nevius did not take a direct hit at all). You should run an apology to your readers for juicing up a story with a phony photo.

It was a mistake to invite Nevius to the roast. Those sharpies who did invite him should have realized that most of the crowd had donated blood, sweat and tears to Daly's political decade and had just had both of their their political balls cut off the previous day in preparation for the shit sandwich to be served up this afternoon.

Under those circumstances, inviting the Dr. Goebbels of San Francisco, the poor man's Ken Garcia, to the roast was not the smartest thing that sprang out of those Big Brains who invited him and prepared his very unfunny remarks. If he was funny, in a roast sense, then he might have evaded pieing. But since he was not friendly with the crowd and not particularly close to Daly by any measure, he was not qualified to roast Chris and it fell flat with the crowd.

Roasting is what people do when they are friendly and close and always treat one another more or less well yet decide for one night to reverse polarities and go for the jugular because it is different. Peskin was the only person up on stage that night who really understood that because Peskin and Daly were close and knew each other all too well.

Unclear on the concept of how inviting enemies to a roast harmonizes with the notion that people should attack the roastee on one night because they always attack the roastee. The viciousness of Nevius' next column after the roast really ratifies that sentiment.

Roasts are man bites dog, not dog bites man.

Personally, I think that Nevius got off too lightly with a pieing. The crowd, which consistently booed Nevius throughout his remarks, would have supported tarring and feathering.

-marcMarc Salomon

Nevius was not a guest of the roast he was asked up after we found out he was actually there. The pie wasn't booed but Nevius obviously and rightfully so was, the truth is I think hardly anyone knew it happened. I personally cheered. Additionally, I like that Nevius left out in his column today that he was even at the roast, got pied or that he then assaulted an innocent bystander.

didn't like hearing about the pie. pies can be alright, but not in this venue. because nevius was a guest at this roast for chris daly. disagree w/ his positions, and throw a pie at him when he's somewhere spouting his truth, fine. but this appearance was all in fun, took some courage at that, and so it was inappropriate to do this to him last night. if you disagree with what he stands for--fine--but last night was in the spirit of fun, so hearing about the incident was a downer for me. we have to learn to live together, and if you can't do that at a roast, then we're in trouble.

typical progressive failure. Do something stupid, don't even do it right, and of course don't have the guts to stand by your actions. FAIL. add to it joyless ideologues bringing fist pounding and screaming to an event where it wasn't warranted, and well, this is why Ed Lee is going to be Mayor and not anyone else.

From now on, can we refer to C.W. Nevius as "Gentrification expert and Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius"?

I'm not a fan of CW but at least he had the decency and self-respect to not have the woman arrested. I cannot say the same for Willie Brown.